The massacre of Jews on Bondi Beach was the tragic, yet inevitable, result of rising Jew hatred throughout the western world, including in Ireland. Ireland’s Chief Rabbi, Yoni Weider, spoke of the festering anti-Semitism targeted at Ireland’s Jewish community, as the Taoiseach Micheál Martin and senior ministers fell over themselves to proclaim support for Irish Jews. Their support in the wake of the Bondi Beach atrocity rings somewhat hollow. For two years, they effectively acted as spectators as, week after week, protesters took over Dublin’s streets expressing support for the Intifada.

This hatred has spilled over into acts of violence and abuse against Ireland’s Jews, as a yet unpublished report shows.

Just imagine the public outrage if a minority community, just over 2,300 strong, experienced 128 hate incidents in just six months. The howls of racism and moral fury emanating from parliament, dutifully reflected in wall-to-wall coverage by TV and print media, would dominate the national discourse for weeks. Tragically, we don’t need to imagine such hatred – and yet, will any of that moral outrage come to pass?

A report on anti-Semitism in Ireland conducted by the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland (JRCI), which will land on Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s desk sometime in the new year. Whenever he gets around to reading it, Martin should not be too surprised at the findings. The Taoiseach and other members of his government have been told repeatedly by the JRCI that Irish Jews are facing a rising tide of........

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